down, to haggle with (any one) to secure a lower price; to force down. To beat into, to teach or instill, by repetition. To beat off, to repel or drive back. To beat out, to extend by hammering. To beat out of a thing, to cause to relinquish it, or give it up. Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it to this day. . To beat the dust.

1. To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blaows; to knock vigorously or loudly. The men of the city . . . Beat at the door. (judges. Xix. 22)

2. To move with pulsation or throbbing. A thousand heartsbeat happily. (Byron)

3. To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do. Sees rolling tempests vainly beat below. (Dryden) They [winds] beat at the crazy casement. (Longfellow) The sunbeat upon the head of jonah, that he fainted, and wisbed in himself to die. (jonahiv. 8) Public envy seemeth to beat chiefly upon ministers. (Bacon)